SAS and Pivotal offer several paths to analytic modernization, depending on the organization's needs and analytic maturity.

Analyzing massive amounts of big data quickly to get at answers that increase agility – an organization's ability to sense change and respond – and drive time-sensitive business decisions is a competitive differentiator in today's market. Customers will gain from Pivotal's deep understanding of massively parallel processing architecture combined with SAS' deep expertise in analytics. Pivotal's strategic alliance with SAS gives our mutual customers integrated tools that allow them to capitalize on the big data opportunity, with confidence of knowing that our joint solutions have been pretested by our world-class engineering teams.

While data continues to grow, decision makers need answers faster than ever. SAS High-Performance Analytics is an in-memory solution that allows you to develop analytical models using complete data, not just a subset or aggregate. You can develop models that use thousands of variables and millions of documents to produce more accurate and timely insights.

With models that can run in minutes or seconds, you can perform more frequent modeling iterations and use sophisticated analytics to get answers to questions you never thought of or had time to ask.

SAS Visual Analytics helps you explore all relevant data quickly and easily no matter the size of the organization – or the data. Now you can look at more options, uncover hidden opportunities, identify key relationships and make more precise decisions to drive success faster than ever before. Self-service, ad hoc visual data discovery and exploration put lightning-fast insights within everyone's reach.

SAS/Access to Hadoop addresses the complexity and implementation costs of Hadoop by enhancing it with the expressive power of structured query language (SQL). The combination accelerates deployment, data exploration, model development and application development, while increasing overall information availability.

About Pivotal

Pivotal is building a new platform for a new era, setting the standard for Enterprise Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). The company's mission is to enable customers to build a new class of applications, leveraging big and fast data, doing all of this with the power of cloud independence.

Uniting selected technology, people and programs from EMC and VMware, the following products and services are now part of Pivotal: Greenplum®, Cloud Foundry, Spring, Cetas, Pivotal Labs®, GemFire® and other products from the VMware vFabric™ Suite.